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Because it was the normal loss of power for the sitting president in a midterm election, not a blue wave. If they also lost the senate it would have been a somewhat different story.

In midterms since 1862, the president's party has averaged losses of about 32 seats in the House and more than two seats in the Senate.

The GOP lost 23 house seats (I think, not totally sure of the exact #) and gained 2 senators.

And yes, I know that is an old article but I heard something like that on the news a few days ago and this was the first one that popped up with the least amount of searching.

Do presidents always get

The way I see it this was one where either side can claim victory and have a point. Dems managed to take back a chamber and thus start bothering Trump for the next 2 years and GOP managed to avoid the major Trump backlash many predicted from more or less the day he was elected.
 
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So far, Democrats have taken 28 seats in the House from Republicans. There are still 11 undecided House races. It was by no means a "blue wave", but it wasn't a surprise.

Here in Texas, Beto O'Rourke brought a lot of people to the polls who voted the straight Democrat ticket. In urban areas like Houston, this kicked out a bunch of Republicans from local offices. Ed Emmett had been County Judge in Harris County for 11 years. He ran as a Republican, but was pretty well respected by Democrats. Beto voters dumped him and elected Lina Hidalgo, a 27 year old Colombian immigrant with a bachelor's in poli sci from Stanford who had never even attended a meeting of commissioner's court. She is suddenly in charge of a $4 billion county budget. Watching what happens next will be ... interesting.

For the first time in my life I was tempted to vote straight Democrat. I didn't because some of the judges Democrats were running are crap, and because Ed Emmett was doing a very good job.
 
Looks like the gain might be up to 30 seats now. Dems also gained governors in 7 states. You can call it whatever you want; all these catch phrases are just the usual political spin.
 
Here in Arizona we have a tight race for a senate seat. It all comes down to those mail-in ballots, which I am one of them. :D I rather do early voting then stand in long lines for hours.

Martha McSally - Republican - 856,848 - 49.4%
Kyrsten Sinema - Democrat - 839,775 - 48.4


Arizona GOP sues to limit mail-in ballots in Senate race

Republicans filed a lawsuit Wednesday night to challenge the way some Arizona counties count mail-in ballots as election officials began to slowly tally more than 600,000 outstanding votes in the narrow U.S. Senate race — a task that could take days.
 
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Here in Arizona we have a tight race for a senate seat. It all comes down to those mail-in ballots, which I am one of them. :D I rather do early voting then stand in long lines for hours.

Martha McSally - Republican - 856,848 - 49.4%
Kyrsten Sinema - Democrat - 839,775 - 48.4


Arizona GOP sues to limit mail-in ballots in Senate race

Republicans filed a lawsuit Wednesday night to challenge the way some Arizona counties count mail-in ballots as election officials began to slowly tally more than 600,000 outstanding votes in the narrow U.S. Senate race — a task that could take days.
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Here a new update with some of the early voting results as Kyrsten Sinema takes the lead.

 
One thing some people have noticed, but Republicans won’t admit it. That Arizona little by little is leaning towards to becoming a Democratic state.

Who knows what the 2020 elections will look like here.

 
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